Identifying, Burying Canada's "Hidden" War Dead

A posting to Canada's public online tendering system indicates Canada's looking for "mortuary services .... To recover and identify the remains of fallen Canadian soldiers, deceased prior to 1970, in order to provide the soldiers and their families with a notable internment.”

Some interesting stats from the Statement of Work:

"Of the approximately 112,000 Canadian servicemen and women who died in the First World, Second World and Korean wars, nearly 28,000 have no known grave. Agricultural practices, combined with new road, business and housing construction on the former battlefields of Europe and Asia, has brought about an increase in the discovery of unidentified human remains; including the remains of Canadian servicemen. Although it is not Canada’s practice to seek missing service personnel from past wars, it is its practice to identify and formally inter those remains once they are discovered."

More here.